Power Out - Day Two

[Tig]

Hope you get your power back soon guys. In the ice storm of 99 we went 10 days The army had to be deployed.
It changed the neighbourhood forever. After that, any time the power went out all you could hear outside was generators.

 

[kozak]

Holy-Ring-Moley......sorry to hear about your predicament down South. Glad I came across this thread though. I have been putting off getting my Generator set-up for this winter. (Change of gas & oil & doing test run) Will have to look into it first thing tomorrow.

Hope your power comes back soon.

Vic

 

[JoelD]

Great idea on the hour meter.

I'm thinking next generator will be diesel.

I know you are correct about keeping equipment at home.

Getting ready to shut down and do oil change in the next hour or so.

I'm hoping we are back up by Monday.

Joel

 

[JoelD]

Just did oil change and fired her back up agin. Definately needed the change, oil was dirty.

I'll be looking for a diesel generator over the next few months. I'd probably go with the auto fail over, guessing expensive but installation can only be so hard. I've done a lot of my own wiring.

Will be very happy if I can get through this outage with this machine. I see no reason why not. She's not lugging hard and should last at least a couple thousand hours I'd think.

Joel

 

[LBrown59]

I am assuming your fuel of choice splices into your home supply?
1*I run oil. Therefore, I would think diesel may be a better choice for me?
2*I'd just need to keep her full and have diesel one hand, generally do for the tractor anyway
Joel

1*That would be my choice.
2*Don't you run your tractor from the home oil tank ?
You could run the house - tractor and Gen. all 3 on one fuel from the same tank.

1*I'm thinking next generator will be diesel.

My choice would be a Diesel Gen because
I already have this
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/1533274-post1.html
to store the fuel in, but I'm not set up to store large amounts of GAS or Propane.

 

[Dodgeram]

Joel,
Hope it comes back on soon.
You never know how much you rely on Electricity until it's gone.
Last year, we lost the power for 4 days,
I pulled the trusty old $300.00 Champion out and powered the 2 Ref and the freezer.
Moved the DW, DD and all of the animals to the MH.
I'm considering hooking the MH generator (8.5 KW) to the house for backup. I always keep the MH full of Diesel (100 gal), so she should last awhile.
Again, hope it's on soon.
Tom

 

[JoelD]

Thanks for the well wishes.

I am hoping for power at least by Sunday night so I can go to work with a clear mind.

We are smack in the middle of year end (week three) and the pressure in on to close the books and we've got a lot of moving parts this year end. Two of our accountants were stuck at home with no connectivity Friday and we are paying the price.

Trying to catch up over the weekend.

I would think the motor home generator would work great for powering your house. Thinking you'd wear out the motor home before you could wear out the generator. Is it a Kubota? Those motors run forever.

I'm thinking a new diesel generator might be a tough sell with the boss but you never know, a little blue box under the X-mass tree seems to quiet things down quite a bit.


Thanks again,
Joel

 

[Dodgeram]

I would think the motor home generator would work great for powering your house. Thinking you'd wear out the motor home before you could wear out the generator. Is it a Kubota? Those motors run forever.

I'm thinking a new diesel generator might be a tough sell with the boss but you never know, a little blue box under the X-mass tree seems to quiet things down quite a bit.


Thanks again,
Joel

MH Generator is an Onan. Maybe not as good as a Kubota, but not bad.
Did you say little blue "box" or little blue "pill"????
Either way, something good will come of it.
Keep the faith.
Tom

 

[JoelD]

Onan, another quality piece of equipment.

I've looked in the past for a generator out of a motorhome to use for my house. Every once in a while I'll see one on ebay or craig's list. They seem like real nice units, built for the long haul.

I am really looking forward to the power coming back on and for things to warm up a little bit outside.

Joel

 

[coobie]

This is a very tuff time of the year to be without power,cold and such.I know that we have electric line crews from Michigan headed to the east coast tonight to help get the power back on.coobie